Join us for #NARSOL2026 in Baltimore, Maryland
June 25-28, 2026Â at the Historic Lord Baltimore Hotel, Inner Harbor
#NARSOL2026 Conference Announced!
Vivante Espero (NARSOL's Foundation) Board announces that the 2026 NARSOL National Conference will be held June 25-28, 2026 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland.
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PLENARY & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Conference Speakers
Miriam Aukerman, Esq.*
Miriam Aukerman, Esq. is a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Michigan and litigates on a broad range of civil liberties issues, with a particular focus on immigrant rights, poverty, and criminal law.
Shawn Barrera-Leaf
Shawn Barrera-Leaf is Executive Director at United Voices 4 Sex Offense Reform. Her work bridges families, survivor-centered stakeholders, lawmakers, and advocacy partners.
Amber Vlangas
Amber Vlangas is Executive Director at the Restorative Action Alliance, an artist, mindful and meditative art teacher, sound healing guide, and co-host of the Amplified Voices podcast.
Grant Hill
Grant Hill is the Iowa State House candidate society said shouldn't exist. After leaving prison, he was handed a sex offender label and told his time was up. Grant refused to accept that narrative and founded a nonprofit, started a podcast, and walked it into the Capitol halls as a lobbyist fighting for real legislative change.
Catherine Carpenter, Esq.
Catherine Carpenter is the Arleigh M. Woods and William T. Woods Chair and Professor Emerita at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. She is affiliated w/ Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) and Access to Restorative Justice.
Peter Dross
Peter (Pete) Dross retired in 2025 after a 32-year career with the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT), a nongovernmental organization that is the largest organization of its kind in the world. Dross has led successful issue and legislative advocacy campaigns on both state/federal levels with broad and bipartisan support.
* - This speaker's plenary sessions/workshops will only be available to in-person attendees.
Conference Workshops
- FOIA in Practice: How Federal records shape safety and Policy
- The 3-minute Advocate: Tactics for Lobbying and Media
- Experience a Fearless Support Group Meeting
- Working with Reality: Employment after a sex conviction
- How AI tools can help our Advocacy
- Legal claims that work
- Grief without Witness
- Lies, Lepers and Lineage
- Lobbying at the State & Federal Levels
- Create Your Own Assisted Living & End of Life Care
- The Value of Women-Forced-to-Register Experiences Value to Advocacy and Prevention
- Political strategies to reform and end Sex Offense Civil Commitment programs
- Self-employment as Survival and Strategy
- Strategic Messaging, Sex offense Policy, and the Media
- Quarternary Prevention: Moving from Moral Panic to Prevention
- Report from the NARSOL legal committee
Number of NARSOL National ConferencesÂ
Number of Registered Citizens in the United States
Evidence-Based Research Indicating that the "Sex Offender" Registry is Effective
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